Blurb from a JoCoNaut:

"It describes the evolution of a completely alien intelligence, and has some great characters" "First book of the Children of Time trilogy. Advanced robotic ships are sent ahead to terraform a planet and prepare it for human settlement, but when the generation ships with the humans on board arrive they find that things did not go exactly as planned. A fun read, an interesting take on different forms of consciousness and intelligence (which carries on in the rest of the series). Arachnophobes might have a problem with the book."

Content Warnings include Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Hostages, Murder, Plague, Religion, Spiders, Violence